Adobe Camera RAW 16 New Features in Photoshop 2024

Adobe Camera RAW 16 is here. Colin Smith shows the ACR in Photoshop 2024 new features. Learn how to use the top new features in ACR 16.

00:00 Intro
00:12 Where didi the crop tool go in Camera RAW?
00:46 Targeted color enhancement with Point Color
03:33 Adding background Blur to a portrait with Lens Blur
06:06 Refining the selection for Lens Blur
08:01 What is HDR and why does it matter?
09:31 set up HDR output

#Photoshop #ACR #cameraRAW #newFeatures

[KrisCortez]

I think the HDR feature deserves its own stand alone video RECORDED and PRESENTED in HDR on YouTube so that people can really see the difference. We finally have an HDR end to end workflow. More people need to really see how big a difference it makes your photos on a HDR display.

[melissam]

Great explanation of HDR. Love all the tech explanations. Good for nerds. Thank you for a great tutorial.

[pwalz]

Thank-you. When using the point, eyedropper method, I find it easier to adjust HSL, then refine with the HSL range sliders. ACR is getting closer to incorporating Lumenzia and Exposure techniques.

[JohnJohnson-bosv]

really enjoyed your contributions to the Summit. You were the one broke the ice for me on the Point Color, now you have done it again with the refinements in Lens Blur i.e The Target, and the brushes. Learned a bunch more. The HDR is sort of like future proofing your images. I hope you will do a more top to bottom on the Point Color and Lens Blur they are so amazing. I used Lens Blur on some Rodeo pics I did last May and it was like I had been gifted a fast 600mm lens..crazy cool. not to mention the easy job Gen fil made of the arena railings, what a difference an Adobe update makes.

[stanspb]

I have played with all these new features except HDR since I do not have a monitor that supports it but seeing your excellent, as always, overview, processed an image to be views on my phone and the difference was dramatic. More items added to the Christmas wish list, a modern monitor.
Adobe has been making itself indispensable to photographers. Those with the low cost photographers bundle might not remember the old days when a new version require buying a whole new version so everyone seemed to be on a different version which would be a support nightmare.
I shot a corporate Halloween party last weekend and had several hundred files to process and some of the nearer additions such as subject selection and background detection was used to apply to all the photos after the first one, to isolate the subject from the background in each photos allowed me to process one and have all the others detected and the changes applied to each file saved me hours of routine work. That allowed my to spend my time on another computer processing a fine art session. I am not sure why anyone would not have the photographers bundle as the best return on investment of all my tools.
By the way, your simple direct easy to understand feature demos are the best and most effective of all the Adobe channels on YouTube.

[robertmarktl]

Thank you especially for the explanation of the HDR panel and the export setting

[jpdj]

You mention "available in Lightroom too" (LrC) - I would add that Adobe Camera Raw (ACR) is the "raw processor" in both LrC and Photoshop (Ps). And you suggest to start ACR from Bridge. Until a couple months ago I was not aware of this and having been pointed at this made me install Bridge again.
The difference between Ps and LrC is that LrC hides ACR in its UI, Ps makes it explicit.
In both cases, ACR runs as a plug-in. So running it stand-alone started from Bridge gives a good view on what ACR precisely is, does.
In LrC it's the Develop tab.
Our edits made with ACR stand-alone are saved to a sidecar file specific to ACR. Not sure if you can import these as virtual copy in LrC, by the way.

[MONTY-YTNOM]

I like Camera RAW more than Lightroom. I wish there was a launch button for it in the cloud control panel

[photoeducationbydaniel]

Waiting for Adobe to address the limited hue range you can change color too in the Point Color selector. Eg if you have a red object and want to make it blue, the hue range is limited. It stops and either purple or pink but you cannot shift the hues to an opposite color.

[KevinMullarkey]

The Pansonic lumix S1 range of camera have been able to take HDR photos for several years now. It's the HSP format in HLG mode. Adobe PS recently added a plugin so you can edit and view them (albeit in SDR). To view them in HDR you have to connect the camera direct to the HDR capable TV/monitor. Mine is a 65" OLED TV 10bit and they look stunning (NO 8BIT BANDING!)
I also spoke about this several years ago when HDR TVs came on the market. It's about time photos caught up with 10/12 bit HDR video. 8 Bit jpegs look so dated these days and about time 10bit HDR photos were the standard..or at least an option, much like on You Tube where you can view any video format there is yet for photos the web still only use 8bit formats

[waynelytton]

I really like the lens blur, I hve used it many times. I absoutley do not like the separation of the tint and exposure adjustments into separate panels.

[margueritewhite]

LOVE your tutorials. So very helpful!!! Unfortunately my very expensive "photo" monitor does not support HDR. Can you do these settings then output for printing even if you can't see them? Is there a way to get around the monitor? UGH, hard to justify buying a new monitor when there is nothing wrong with the expensive old one! I'm guessing that new printers will also need to be on the wishlist! lol

[martinbreslow]

I noticed that Photoshop 25.9 now can have up to 3 entries in what used to be the last filter so you can have Camera Raw, NEO and Topaz Photo AI a click away.

[ednsb]

once again, this a great video. I am pretty sure the answer is no but does HDR do anything around printing or is it digital only?

[lindameaton]

Hi Colin great information. Just one question, will we be able to print all these HDR colours?

[bobfromrockville]

What happened to "RENAME PROFILE" in Camera Raw? Is there a way to organize custom priles into clusters/groups? This capability seems to have disappeared from earlier versions of Camera Raw.

[LanceCadena]

Awesome tutorial. I have a question. saving as an HDR at the 11:30 mark. How much larger is the file size if you do save as an HDR? Thank you for all the great info!!!

[guusbeeld]

Hi Colin, perfect explanation, but my question is about the HDR setting in your display used. When I calibrate my display does the HDR setting influence my calibration and do I have a different comparison to my print then?

[JerodBeeson]

Curious why jpeg xl was the choice for hdr output? Seems like that format is far less adopted at this point and avif is the leading choice for hdr output to be compatible across the most devices.

[QuangTran-ppvj]

What this amera raw 16.0 hates is that it separates green light and color wb vibrant saturation into 2 separate parts (very cumbersome), so now pressing the ctrl shortcut to change items will have to change the habit. And in the old version, when in the mask section, press ctrl + number to return to the items, now you have to press E and then ask ctrl + number... I don't understand at all.